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Newspaper
Steele City Press
Location
Steele City, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Dec 25, 1914
Page
2
The report states Generals Guillermo and Ber were executed on December 13 amid a convention dispute involving Provisional President Gutierrez and General Villa. Aragon is accused of plotting to destroy rail lines to hinder Villa’s troops.
London reports tropical troops, especially Senegalese, endure extreme cold with frostbite and amputations as they hold positions. In France, wounded care and hospital visits reveal harsh conditions for colonial soldiers. Separate scenes note violent riots in Italy during anniversary observances and police response.
Brief resume of measures before both houses in Washington. Senate resumed immigration bill talks. lands committee closed water power site leasing bill hearings. House set sessions, considered miscellaneous measures, enacted urgency deficiency appropriations, and approved war department fund use for East River projects. Various nominations and hearings noted.
Western Newspaper Union reports Mexican tensions risk embarrassing complications. Consular Agent Car informs the state department that Governor Maytorena, leading Villa forces at Naco, plans to withdraw ten to twelve miles, awaiting Gutierrez directive to abandon the attack unless billets cross the international line.
Washington reports potential tensions with Great Britain over Mexican affairs. Carranzista officials allegedly auctioned goods at Vera Cruz customs, while Francis and Dunn, believed Americans killed near Naco, Arizona, are now stated as British subjects. Britain may press the U.S. to protect interests at Vera Cruz and secure redress for the two murders.
Congressional debate focuses on the rule to take up Hobson resolution for national prohibition. Leaders expect a spirited vote in the House, with a separate suffrage amendment unlikely to be reached before the holiday recess.
The Russian army in Poland will trial heavy artillery made in the United States next month. The steamship Novgorod, sailing from Vancouver to Vladivostok, carries 165 carloads of war supplies including siege guns and projectiles. The 105 ton guns were manufactured in Pennsylvania and other trainloads of American big guns and shells head toward Vancouver.
American Commission for Relief in Belgium receives high praise from Herbert C. Hoover at the Rancheon Club. Ambassador Page lauds the group as the link between belligerent nations and Mississippi Valley farmers while outlining Belgian suffering and the need for continued aid amid wartime shortages.
London reports a British protectorate over Egypt with Prince Hussein Kemal named sultan and accepting the role. Abbas Hilmi’s uncle steps into leadership as France recognizes the arrangement and Britain backs the 1912 Franco Moorish treaty following the Agadir incident.
Washington reports American farmers sowed a record 41,263,000 acres of winter wheat for the coming season. The acreage increases by 4,135,000 acres from last fall, following a harvest of 684,990,000 bushels and a plantings surplus of 5,265,000 acres over the year’s harvest.
Grand Junction Colo A reduction of 50 cents a ton in freight rates on coal from Mesa county mines to Nebraska Kawase and Oklahoma will be made early in January by the Colored Midland railroad.
Lincoln Neb state water power commission appointed by Governor Morehead and requested by the house of representatives has made public its report on water control and the powers to be granted.
The clipped Nebraska items report burglary suspects held in Gering county jail at Scottsbluff, a new city hall and engine house contract awarded at Geneva, and Henry Kuper sale results with a cow at 400 dollars. Also covered are church ordinations and postmaster appointments, fire destroying Humboldt Odd Fellows building, and various local incidents across towns such as Lushton, Pawnee City, and Lincoln.
The Nebraska supreme court upholds the lower court ruling denying a writ of mandamus against the Lincoln excise board to enforce prohibition. Bittenbender and wife challenged the board, but the court affirmed the decision in favor of the excise board.
Legislative prospects include financial support for the University of Nebraska as suggested by Secretary J S Dales. The document hints at forthcoming details and provisions to sustain university operations and maintenance.
A Prussian Landwehr company being mustered needs clerical help. The captain asks the first sergeant for a neat writer and decent calculator. Corporal Kammermeyer steps in and reveals he is a professor of mathematics in civilian life.
A St Nicholas writer notes Yarmouth claims a long Falstaff lineage. The Falstaffe family appears in 13th to 14th century records as bailiff and MP figures. Sir John Falstoffe after war service left his home to Shakespeare’s Falstaff, while supporting the St Nicholas church.
A quirky lampoon contrasts notions of marriage and true love with a wry remark on knowing less the more one thinks. It samples a cheeky dialogue about social ambition and romantic ideals.
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